perpetrate a pun

verb

Roget 842: joke, jest, crack a joke, make a joke, jape, cut jokes; perpetrate a joke; pun, perpetrate a pun; make fun of, make merry with; kid, kid around, fool around; set the table in a roar etc. (amuse) 840.    retort; banter etc. (ridicule) 856; ridentem dicere verum [Lat.]; joke at one's expense.    take in jest.    [make a joke which is not funny] bomb, fall flat; go over like a lead balloon.    ... show more

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